[betty boop]

I see a gigantic chasm between objectively verifiable facts on the one hand and subjective experience on the other. Gigantic. You seem not to see this, or if you do see it, you regard it as no big deal. I think we'll just have to let the subject go without agreement.

Of course I see this. Why should I regard this as a "big deal?" It is part of the structure of life. You seem to think that subjective experience is somehow beyond the pale. Well, it is beyond the pale -- of science. Not every question is a scientific question, with a scientific answer. That doesn't mean that what science cannot address does not exist, or has inferior status. Perhaps science, for you, is the key to certainty. But life is uncertain, through and through. That's not a scientific observation; but I do believe it is a truthful one.

[PatrickHenry]

Not every question is a scientific question, with a scientific answer.

We agree.

That doesn't mean that what science cannot address does not exist, or has inferior status.

Agreed. Unless one is a metaphysical naturalist, which we are not.

Perhaps science, for you, is the key to certainty.

For scientific questions, it's the best way yet found for gaining knowledge. There ain't any certainty in this world, except in subjects like geometry.

But life is uncertain, through and through. That's not a scientific observation; but I do believe it is a truthful one.

Indeed.